Sunday, September 13, 2009

Great Big Baloons

Gatineau is roughly a 5-10min drive from our house. Its also in Qubec and hosts a bloody big annual hot air balloon festival every Sept. It’s a bit like an Easter show with an attached RV park and lots of hot air balloons (60ish over the course of the event) all doing their thing starting at the appointed hour. In this case, 5:30pm. The kids loved it. Lillian called out and waved goodbye to many, many balloons while Tom and I were lucky enough to have front row seats for one of the very 1st launches.


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  1. YsambartSeptember 14, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    Now that looks really cool. One or two at a time are cool, but that would be spectacular. Man, the organisers would be worried about the weather :)

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  2. JyggdrasilSeptember 15, 2009 at 5:27 AM

    It was pretty nifty.

    I have to admit initially I was very skeptical about the kids making it through the hour before the 5:30 launch as 5:30 is normally dinner. As expected they were pretty scratchy, but once the balloons started to inflate and fill the sky it all turned to magic.

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